superchicken

I am looking for a new engine for my 99 vtr1000. The cam chain broke yesterday and I am sure it would be cheaper just to replace the engine at this point. I am very heart broken as I love the bike. I don't know what else to do as I purchased the bike for only $3.5K with 25Kmiles on it two years ago. My wife knocked it over last year(with the car) and I just finished repairing everything on it and then some. New tires, bafflectomy, and other small upgrades. At this point I just took a $3Kplus hit in the pants. I am looking for low miles and something out of your grandma's hawk. I live in Hawaii and I will have to look into shipping. Thank you for any replies.

Aloha

joshn569

Theres a couple on ebay,

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/00-HO...spagenameZWDVW

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Honda...spagenameZWDVW

superbling

OUCH dude. Good call on getting another motor but day-umm shipping is going to be bloody expensive to the islands.

Chitownson

If you have a shop manual (often $20.00 on e-bay) and the time, you may do better financially by patiently taking the top end off the engine, checking what's damaged and getting new cam chains & replacing whatever parts are damaged with some used parts (e-bay? Los Angeles Cycle Salvage?) At least you know how your engine's been treated. There's some good tutorials on this site re: cam chains. No matter what you do engine wise, go with the manual APE cam chain tensioners. Good luck.

superchicken

Thank you all for your replies and recommendations. This is truly a wonderful place with great people.

ALOHA TO ALL!!!

Gregw

I agree with Chitownson. It shouldn’t cost more than your time to peek inside the engine. Who knows, maybe it’s not all that bad?

nuhawk

It's close to $500 to ship the engine midway cross-country ie California to Texas (when 2Phast and I were dealing on his) I bet shipping to Hawaii is 50% more. Considering this I would agree with the others that a rebuild might be the better option mechanically and financially.

Best of luck!